Sentence examples for pursuits for the from inspiring English sources

As time went on, the family abandoned its early pursuits for the rarefied realms of philanthropy.

She's a socialite who used to write a column "inspired by her pursuits" for the Daily Telegraph.

He inclined to intellectual pursuits for the rest of his life, surrounding himself with scholars and artists, most notable among them the historian Leopold von Ranke.

"There's a lot of adrenaline involved and cops want to catch bad guys," said Geoffrey P. Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied police pursuits for the Justice Department.

The question is at last one of classification of subjects, trades, or pursuits, for the purpose of taxation, and concerns the power of the states to exercise discretion in the methods, subjects, and rates of taxation.

The club's executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, saw speculative pursuits for the likes of Gareth Bale, Thomas Muller and Neymar end in failure during the summer, but Van Gaal's admission that he will continue to splash the cash in the transfer market teased United fans that another big name could be coming to Old Trafford.

Baking is a pursuit for the precise; a teaspoon is not a teaspoonish.

Science, it often seems, is a pursuit for the old and crusty.

In any case, movies remain a sideline pursuit for the author.

By Emma Allen Baking is a pursuit for the precise; a teaspoon is not a teaspoonish.

Gunning rejected the idea that his Bowland shoot was an anachronistic country pursuit for the upper classes.